Construction Begins On Hawaii Ethanol Plant

Ethanol To Be Added To Gasoline In April

HONOLULU — Construction on Oahu’s first ethanol plant could begin in three to four months. That means ethanol could soon be going into your car.

Over the next few weeks, Hawaii’s gasoline industry will begin adding ethanol to everyone’s gasoline. It’s an effort to reduce the state’s dependence on imported oil even though at first the ethanol is being imported, too.

That could change in a year or so after Hawaii’s first ethanol plants get up and running.

“We expect that in the next three or four months we should be breaking ground and ready to go,” said Dan KenKnight, of Oahu Ethanol Corp.

KenKnight said Oahu Ethanol would use a time-proven fermenting process to turn plant sugar into ethanol.

TheHawaiiChannel.com